Karen Neuberg's poems and collages have appeared in numerous journals, including , and Unbroken Journal; and in anthologies including First Water: The Best of Pirene's Fountain, A Slant of Light: Contemporary Women Writers of the Hudson Valley, and Words Fly Away: Poems for Fukushima. She is a multiple Pushcart and a Best of the Net nominee, holds an MFA from The New School, and is associate editor of the online poetry journal First Literary Review East. She is the author of two previous chapbooks: Detailed Still (Poets Wear Prada) and Myself Taking Stage (Finishing Line Press), and lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Books by Karen Neuberg:

Other poems on the web by Karen Neuberg:
"Little Poem"
"Old Game"
Five poems
"How I Arrived Here"
"Years Now, She's Dead"
"The Girl Who Wanted to Go Fast"
"Tremendous Idea"
"Tryptic of Memory with Corona"
"Evidence"
"How to Keep"
"Truth is"
Five poems
"The Entire History of Your Fires"
Two poems
"Attempts"
"Aren't We"

About the elephants are asking:

"Karen Neuberg's the elephants are asking is a brave, moving plea and testimonial, a sonorous cry out to the world to save the planet from the calamitous effects of climate change on all living things. These poems speak deeply from a bereft heart, with luminous words that have an urgency to save and breathe life into the wrath of decay, the human toll on the earth, 'Whatever remains / will glow in the / dark bone by bone.' The poet's eye noticing the indelicate erosion of all the things in our natural world, and all that we hold most dear. These wise, cautionary tales, map the trajectory of a corrupt and fool-hearty world and warn: 'Information pours and pours burying us beneath ourselves.' Neuberg challenges us with an intrepid call to arms—to confront and implore us to look, act and begin to pick up the pieces to save our world, to lovingly protect the sacred places."
—Cynthia Atkins